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My original focus on Wikipedia was editing and referencing rail transit-focused articles (which I still do... just not as often now) – I find referencing to be especially relaxing, and rail-focused articles tend to be statistics-based and are therefore less controversial (and, thus, less contentious) than many of the articles on Wikipedia. More recently, I've moved on to other targets for editing, such as Biographies of living persons (esp. television-related), and articles on television shows, occasionally in the context of reviewing.
Article creation
I've created 40 proper articles (i.e. non-redirect, non-disambiguation) so far:
† Created as merge (and redirect) of five separate articles in to one complete article; supplemented with some original content. ‡ Article moved to mainspace from draftspace by an editor other than myself, or as part of the WP:AfC process.
The following 13 articles, while not technically "new articles", were either effectively new articles that were replacing redirects, were essentially new creations replacing a stub article, or were split-outs of new articles from existing articles:
Cree Cicchino (while I did not originally create it, I did nearly all of the work that went into it) (August 2020)
The Ark (TV series) (this started out as a redirect I created in 2015; it's now been taken over as an article for the 2023 TV series, so I guess I'm on the hook for it!!) (July 2015/December 2022)
